List of mosques in Istanbul explained

Istanbul, as the capital of the Ottoman Empire since 1453 and the largest city in the Middle East, contains a great number of mosques. In 2007, there were 2,944 active mosques in Istanbul.^[1]

Byzantine buildings

These Byzantine structures were converted to mosques by the Ottomans.

• Arap Mosque
• Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque
• Bodrum Mosque
• Eski Imaret Mosque
• Fenari Isa Mosque
• Hirami Ahmet Pasha Mosque
• Gül Mosque
• Hagia Sophia^[2]
• Chora Church now Kariye Mosque.
• Kalenderhane Mosque
• Kasım Agha Mosque
• Kefeli Mosque
• Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque
• Little Hagia Sophia
• Pammakaristos Church
• Sancaktar Hayrettin Mosque
• Vefa Kilise Mosque
• Zeyrek Mosque

Ottoman mosques

See also: Mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty.

• Eyüp Sultan Mosque, 1458
• Mahmut Pasha Mosque, Eminönü, 1463
• Fatih Mosque, 1470
• Murat Pasha Mosque, Aksaray, 1471
• Rum Mehmed Pasha Mosque, 1471
• Firuz Ağa Mosque, 1491
• Handan Agha Mosque, 15th century
• Bayezid II Mosque, 1506
• Yavuz Selim Mosque, 1527/28
• Piri Mehmed Pasha Mosque, 1530–31
• Haseki Sultan Mosque, 1539
• Defterdar Mosque, 1542
• Mihrimah Sultan Mosque (Üsküdar), 1548
• Şehzade Mosque, 1548
• Burmalı Mescit Mosque (Burmalı Mescit Camii), 1550
• Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque, 1551
• Sinan Pasha Mosque (Istanbul), 1555
• Süleymaniye Mosque, 1558
• İskender Pasha Mosque, Kanlıca, 1560
• Rüstem Pasha Mosque, 1563
• Mihrimah Mosque, 1565
• Kara Ahmet Pasha Mosque,
• Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque, 1572
• Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque, 1577
• Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex, 1580
• Şemsi Pasha Mosque, 1581
• Atik Valide Mosque, 1583
• Molla Çelebi Mosque, 1584
• Mesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque, 1585
• Kırmızı Minare Mosque, probably 1591
• İskender Pasha Mosque, Fatih, 15th or 16th centuries
• Blue Mosque, 1616
• New Mosque, 1665
• Yeni Valide Mosque, 1710
• Nuruosmaniye Mosque, 1755
• Zeynep Sultan Mosque, 1769
• Büyükdere Kara Mehmet Kethüda Mosque, 18th century
• Emirgan Mosque, 1781
• Laleli Mosque, 1783
• Teşvikiye Mosque, 1794
• Selimiye Mosque, Üsküdar, 1805
• Muhammad Maarifi Mosque, 1818
• Nusretiye Mosque, 1826
• Küçük Mecidiye Mosque, 1843
• Dolmabahçe Mosque, 1855
• Ortaköy Mosque, 1856
• Altunizade Mosque, 1865
• Pertevniyal Valide Sultan Mosque, 1872
• Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, 1886
• Bebek Mosque, 1913

Post-Ottoman mosques

• Şişli Mosque, 1949
• Şakirin Mosque, 2009
• Sancaklar Mosque, 2012
• Mimar Sinan Mosque, 2012
• Çamlıca Mosque, 2019
• Taksim Mosque, 2021

See also

• List of mosques in Turkey
• Islam in Turkey

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vatan – Diyanet: Türkiye'de 79 bin 096 cami var . W9.gazetevatan.com . 6 June 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090211180338/http://w9.gazetevatan.com/haberdetay.asp?Newsid=188144&Categoryid=1 . 11 February 2009 .
2. News: Hagia Sophia: Turkey turns iconic Istanbul museum into mosque. BBC News. 10 July 2020.